Dave Ripley
Co-CEO, Kraken · 1 appearance on the record.
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executivefounderengineer@DavidLRipley ↗kraken.com ↗
Dave Ripley serves as Co-CEO of digital asset exchange Kraken, having spent six years as its Chief Operating Officer before taking over the CEO role from founder Jesse Powell. Prior to Kraken, he was the co-founder and CEO of Glidera, a non-custodial crypto wallet and funding platform that Kraken acquired in 2016.
3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
4 predictions · 6 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
The record, in short
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redirected or did not address 3 of 13 assessed questions (23%). Watch them ▸
This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →
How they sound: speaking style how? →
239 words/min while actually speaking · 38 um and uh per 1k words · 34 false starts per 1k · 33.7% of pauses land inside a clause
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,451 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →
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Across 1 rated episode:
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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Dow | Jan 26, 2024 | 23m |